“Love is not mere pleasure, a thing of memory; it’s a state of intense vulnerability and beauty, which is denied when the mind builds walls of self-centred activity. Love is life, and so it is also death. To deny death and cling to life is to deny love.”.

“Attention is a state of mind in which there is no contradiction. There is no entity, or centre, or point, which says, “I must attend”. It is a state in which there is no wastage of energy, whereas in concentration there is always the controlling process going on.”

“The truth does not possibly lie in a temple, in a book, however old. You have to discover it for yourself. You cannot buy it through tears, through prayers, through repetition, through rituals – in that way lies absurdity, illusion, insanity”.

“Learning is as astonishing thing. You cannot learn from a teacher. You can only learn from observing – observing what another says, observing to see whether there is truth or whether there is falsehood in what he says, or observing to see the truth in the false.”